Key Feature 1 – Resources
Key Feature: Teaching prosocial skills in a way that honors diversity, strengths, and needs across and within students.
Handouts
Social Skills(pdf)
I Feel Welcome Unwelcome Handout(pdf)
A Checklist of Everyday Strategies to Promote Prosocial Development(pdf)
The Elephant Fable(Word)
Scripts
The Elephant Fable Script (pdf – for students)
The Elephant Fable Script II(pdf – for students)
Videos
The 4-minute video, above, is an example of the importance of building community in the classroom.
The 6-minute video, above, provides four social skills students can practice.
This 12-minute TED talk discusses how to talk to kids about taboo or sensitive topics such as race.
This 3-minute video about a fable can be shared with students to teach important lessons on perception and differences in understanding.
Websites
This website provides useful lessons learned when talking to students about race and racism.
This website provides helpful resources and explains why it is never to early for children to learn about diversity.
“Transformative SEL” is a SEL framework that focuses on the rights and responsibilities for creating a just and caring learning environment. This includes the use of identity, agency, belonging, curiosity, and problem-solving so that adults and students can build collaborative, long-lasting relationships. Transformative SEL critically examines individual-level and contextual factors that contribute to inequities. Learn more about Transformative SEL here: website